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Renaissance Jewels and Jeweled Objects. The Melvin Gutman Collection. The Baltimore Museum of Art 1968. B0007E7EWQ Hardcover in DJ. Good Fair , some wear and tears to dj. Quarto 194 pp Many black and white and color photographs. "Over 200 precise and detailed photographic illustrations for this catalogue, not only of each piece from every important angle, but also with innumerable close-up macro-photographs of the fine detail and the excitingly polished workmanship and structure." Price:
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History of the 127th Regiment Pennsylvania PA. Volunteers familiarly known as the "Dauphin County Regiment" Lebanon [1902] Red cloth hardcover. Gilt lettering and blindstamp Water damage to cover, some bleeding through to endpapers. Water staining to first few pages. Light waterstaining to top and bottom fore edges. Needs a bookbinder's tender mercies. Octavo 335 pp. Listed in Dornbush I PA-313 Frontispiece of Colonel Jennings in uniform. 31 full page portraits and 1 double page drawing of Camp Boas. History of the regiment and their participation in Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville during the Civil War. Roster of the various Companies and a roster of the Field and Staff Officers. Price:
100.00 USD
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The Complete Work of Michelangelo. Reynal 1966. 0070232075 Hardcover in DJ Good Fair, some wear and a crease to dj. Quarto 597 pp 1040 ullus, 32 plates in color Contents include : Forward; I. Charles de Tolnay: The Historic and Artistic Personality of Michelangelo; II. Umberto Baldini: Sculpture; III. Roberto Salvini: Painting; IV. Guglielmo de Angelis D'Ossat: Architecture; V. :uciano Berti: Drawings; VI. Charles de Tolnay: Minor Works; VII. Eugenio Garin: Thinker; VIII. Enzo Noe Girardi: Writer; IX. Giovanni Nencioni: Language; X. Francesco de Feo: Biographical Note; XI. Peter Meller: Bibliography. Price:
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Leonardo da Vinci. Reynal 1956. 0875991122 Hardcover in DJ. Good Good, sl wear to dj. Quarto 518 pp 1609 illus, 12 in full color. "This volume is the most complete and authoritative work ever produced on Leonardo. It was originally published in Italy by the Istituto Geografico De Agostinii just before the war, in conjunction with the famous exhibition of Leonardo's work in Milan in 1938. Recently Emil Vollmer, the German publisher, joined with the Istituto and re-edited the volume, making entirely new illustration plates from which this edition is printed.". Price:
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The Rogozen Treasure. Sofia Publishing House of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. 1989. Hardcover in DJ. Good/ Good, some tears at head and foot of spine on dj. Quarto Quarto 194 pp Thracian silver treasure from the fifth and fourth centuries BC from Rogozen in Bulgaria Price:
25.00 USD
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Seventh Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts. January 1876 Boston Wright and Potter : 1875 . Softcover. Toning and some soiling and'or faint damp stains to foreedges. Octavo 551 pp Very large folding map in front, showing principal basins within the state. Outlines possibly handcolored..not sure. Included are large folding map on the Valley of Blackstone River with mills and iron works marked, large folding map on Neponset river, large folding map Charles River, large folding map on Chicopee River, large folding map on Taunton River, large folding map on Map of Boston - badly torn but repairable, large folding map on Bedford Irrigation Farm, large folding map on Heathcote Farm, large folding Map of Boston showing Health Districts, Filled and Unfilled Land. There are also numerous full page maps and diagrams. Discusses health concerns, sewage, pollution. Price:
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Craftsmen & Artists of Norwich. Historical Exhibition Norwich Ct. 1965 Softcover Good Octavo 67 pp The Cabinetmakers by Houghton Bulkeley; the Silversmiths by Philip A. Johnson; The Clockmakers and Pewterers by Ada R. Chase; Natives of Norwich Sail the Seven Seas by Raymond B. Chase Price:
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Episodes of Fiction or Choice Stories from Great Novelists. New York Virtue and Yorston : no date @1869. Full leather with gold gilt lettering and brown st Some rubbing to corners and cover edges. 10 pp detached but present. Octavo 303 pp illustrations throughout. Includes works by Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, Walpole, Goldsmith, Poltock, Beckford, Godwin, Hook, MacKenzie, Griffin, Galt, Radcliffe, Smith, Landon, Mrs. Shelley, Miss Mitford, Mrs. Aphra Behn & Mrs. Elizabeth Inchbald Price:
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Memoir of Captain M.M Hammond. Rifle Brigade. NY Robert Carter : 1858 Brown cloth hardcover with gilt lettering. Good, some wear to head and foot. Bumping of corners. Some light foxing on a few pages. Previous owner inscription. Octavo 372 pp Memoir of Captain Hammond, who was killed in the assault on the Redan in Sebastopol ins the War of the Crimea in 1855. He was a member of the Second Battalion of the Rifle Brigade. Price:
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La Vita Medioevale Italiana nella Miniatura. Rome Bestetti : 1960 Hardcover in slipcase. Good Poor slipcase, part of it is missing. Folio 127 pp Color plates tipped in, plus color and black and white illus. In Italian. Part 1 has to do with the Italian Community, Part II, Italian Culture, Music, Medicine of the Surgeon Price:
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Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 133 Anthropological Papers 19-26. BAE 1943 Softcover Good, sl wear. Stamp on cover " From Congressman Walter Huber 14th District" Octavo 615 pp 2 large folding maps plus maps in text, black and white photographs Contents include Chitimacha Indians, Northern Northwest Coast Archeology, Early Vertebrate Fauna of British Columbia Coast, Beaufort Co SC Archaeology, Ceramic Remains Beaufort SC, Eastern Cherokees, Poison Whaling, The Carrier Indians, The Peruvian Quipu, Price:
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Austen, John - Compiler Rogues in Porcelain. Greenberg Publisher 1924. First American edition. Hardcover. Tender, crack in spine. As is. Some wear to head and foot. Octavo 258 pp "give pleasure to all those who love the courtesies, the formalities, and the gracious fancies of the Augustan age of English Poetry." Includes work by William Congreve, Robert Dodsley, John Gay, Matthew Prior and Philip Stanhope among many others Price:
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Davis, Richard Harding Cuba in War Time. Russell: New York. 1897. First edition. Hardcover. Some wear to casing and splitting of spine cover. Octavo 143 pp. Illustrated by Frederick Remington. 24 plates. Chapters include: Cuba in War Time, The Fate of the Pacificos, The Death of Rodriguez, Along the Trocha, The Question of Atrocities, The Right of Search of American Vessels. Price:
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Dyson, HVD Augustans and Romantics. Cresset Press 1940 Hardcover Good Octavo Introductions to English Literature series. Volume III only. 318 pp "The Introduction, deals with the literature of the period in all its forms, connecting it with the other arts and with contemporary philosophic and religious movements. There are chapters on the art, economics, and philosophy of the period. The remaining part of the book consists of a bibliography raisonnee, made up of lists of books". Price:
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How, Louis Narcissus and Two Other Poems. New York The Harbor Press: 1928. Hardcover in Slipcase. Good/Poor slipcase, some scuffing and splitting of case. Small Octavo. Printed on hand made paper. Limited and numbered edition 63/385 copies Drawings by Walter Dorwin Teague. Poems are Narcissus, Cephalus and Procris, Acis and Galatea. Price:
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Lee, George Hyde Kith and Kin. Washington : Neale 1900. Hardcover. Good Octavo 174 pp
"The action takes place in the cities of Washington and New York. Among the charcters who contribute to the intrest are a Treasury clerk, attaches of the British and Chinese legations, and others prominent in Washintong official life. the story is delightful in its humor, and the sitiations are ludicrous to the extreme." Price:
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Mill, John Stuart The Subjection of Women. Lippincott : Philadelphia 1869. First edition. Hardcover. Good, sl wear to corners, head and foot. Sl discoloration to back cover. Octavo 174 pp + 6 pp advertising.
John Stuart Mill claims this essay was co-written by his wife, Harriet Taylor Mill, in 1869. Some critics focus on this more than others. This essay was an affront to the conventional norms of views on stature of men and women. "The Subjection of Women" (1869) offered both detailed argumentation and passionate eloquence in bitter opposition to the social and legal inequalities commonly imposed upon women by a patriarchal culture. Just as in "On Liberty", Mill defends the emancipation of women on utilitarian grounds.
Mill was convinced that the moral and intellectual advancement of humankind would result in greater happiness for everybody. The Higher pleasures of the intellect yielded far greater happiness than the lower pleasure of the senses. He conceived of human beings as moral and intellectually capable of being educated and civilized. Mill believes everyone should have the right to vote, with the only exceptions being barbarians and uneducated people.
Mill argues that the reason people should be able to vote is to defend their own rights and to learn to stand on their two feet, morally and intellectually. This argument is applied to both men and women. Mill often used his position as an MP to demand the vote for women, a controversial position for the time.
In Mill's time women were generally subject to the whims of her husband and/or father. This was because of social norms which said women were both physically and mentally less able than men, and therefore needed to be "taken care of." Contributing to this view were social theories, i.e. survival of the fittest and biological determinism, drawn from the biological theory of evolution and also religious views supporting a hierarchical view of men and women within the family. The archetype of the ideal woman as mother, wife and homemaker was a powerful idea in 19th century society.
At the time of writing, Mill recognised that he was going against the common views of society and was aware that he would be forced to back up his claims persistently. Mill saw the inequality of women as a relic from the past, when might was right. It had no place in the modern world. Mill saw this as a hindrance to human development, since effectively half the human race were unable to contribute to society outside of the home.
"Legal subordination of one sex to another is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and that it ought to be replaced by a system of perfect equality, admitting no power and privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other." Wikipedia Price:
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Sherry, John The Laws of Innkeepers - For Hotels, Motels, Restaurants and Clubs. Cornell University Press 1972. Hardcover. Good Octavo 510 pp Chapters Incude : Historical Introduction, The Nature of an Inn, Houses of Public Entertainment other than a Hotel, The Public Duty of Innkeeping, Innkeeper's Public Duty to Receive Guests, Discrimination, Reception of the Guest, Innkeeper's Duty to persons Who are not Guests, Legal Excuses for Refusal to Receive a Guest and many others. Price:
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White, EB The Second Tree from the Corner. Harper and Brothers 1936. Hardcover in DJ. Good/Poor dj, wear and tears to dj. Octavo 253 pp "Whoever sets pen to paper writes of himself, whether knowingly or not. This, then, is a book of revelations: stories, poems, essays, opinions, out of the past, the present, the future, the city, and the country." Price:
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Abbott, Lawrence edit. I Stand in the Center of the Good. University of Nebraska 1994. 080321037X Hardcover in DJ Good, remainder mark on foreedge. Good Octavo Octavo 292 pp What is Indian art? There have been many attempts to define it, but the so-called Santa Fe style of the 1930s - placid, two dimensional depictions of traditional scenes - set the standard by which subsequent art by Native Americans would be judged. Art that radically challenged the stereotype - the work of Joe Herrera, Fritz Scholder, and T.C. Cannon, for example - met with resistance; questions were raised about its authenticity as Indian art. Today's Indian art has resoundingly overturned old preconceptions: here are cartoon figures in throbbing neon colors, "decorated" grocery bags, messages to America on the Spectator billboard in Times Square, delicate abstractions and cubist images, work that ranges from monotype and photography to mixed media and clay, from humor and biting commentary to quiet introspection. I Stand in the Center of Good, the first book of its kind, offers a forum for seventeen contemporary Native American artists to speak about the development of their art, their creative processes, how they define their art, and how it relates to their Indianness. The interviews are handsomely illustrated with works by the artists. Price:
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Abrahams, Israel By-Paths in Hebraic Bookland Blom 1972 Hardcover Good Small Octavo 371 pp Reprint of 1920 edition. Contents : From the contents: Philo on the "Contemplative Life"; "The Letter of Sherira"; "The Sarajevo Haggadah"; De Rossi's "Light of the Eyes"; Leon Modena's "Rites"; Mendelssohn's "Jerusalem"; Isaac Leeser's "Bible"; The Poems of Emma Lazarus; Imber's song. Price:
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Adam, Frank The Clans, Sept and Regiments of the Scottish Highlands. Johnson 1934 Third 3/4 leather with leaf boards Rebound. Tight. Octavo Map. 523 pp text plus 114 color illustrations of tartans. Detailed account of the Scottish clans, tartans and fighting regiments. Discusses the Highlands, Highland dress, surnames and titles, coats of arms, chieftains, badges of clans. This was originally published in 1908. Price:
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Aharoni and Hartog Beer-Sheba I and II. Tel Aviv University 1973 1984 Hardcover in DJ. Good Good, Vol II has zeroxed dj. Quarto 2 vols. Vol I covers Excavations at Tel Beer-Sheba. 1969-1971 seasons. 135 pp text, 79 plates, Plates 80-95 folding maps and plans. Vol II covers The Early Iron Age Settlements. 134 pp text, 16 plates Price:
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Albrecht-Mathey, E. and Jean Michel Tucherer. The Fabrics of Mulhouse & Alsace 1750-1800 and 1801-1850. F. Lewis : Leigh-on-Sea 1968, 1972 L Limited edition 600 copies, 500 copies. Hardcover Good/Good Quarto @ 66 pp text, 246 black and white examples. 4 examples in color. " At the present time it is impossible to set down with any degree of accuracy the history of textile printing at Mulhouse, once a small Republic, allied to Switzerland until 1798 and in the Upper Alsace region. Mulhouse, though completely enclosed within the bounds of the French State until 1798 was the cradle and centre of textile printing in Upper Alsace and the manufactories which sprang up were to expand considerably during the course of the 18th century in the Vosges valleys." Price:
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Algar, M'Cullagh, Reilly, Drumm, Daly, Hayes. The Synthesis of Chromo-Quinoline Derivatives, Orientation in the Aromatic Ether Series, Studies in the Pyrazole Series, Lichenin and Lichenin Nitrate, The Constitution of Fischer and Bulow's Pyrazole. Vol XL Section B # 5,6,7,8,9 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Dublin Hodges Figgis & Co. : 1931. Softcover Good Octavo Pp 83-108 Price:
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Allen. Michael and Wilcox, Angela Critical Approaches to Anglo-Irish Literature. Barnes and Noble 1989 Hardcover in DJ Good Good Octavo 193 pp Articles Include : Mobilizing Byzantium, Catherine Belsey; Doubles, Shadows, Sedan Chairs and the Past - The Ghost Stories of J. S. Le Fanu, Patricia Coughlan; National Character and National Audience: Races, Crowds and Readers, Seamus Deane; Garnering the Facts: Unreliable Narrators in Some Plays of Brian Friel, Gerald FitzGibbon; Fathers Vanquished and Victorious: A Historical Reading of Synge's Playboy, Ruth Fleischmann; "It is Myself that I Remake" The Shaping of Self in W. B. Yeats's Autobiographies, Margaret E. Fogarty; The Critical Condition of Ulster, John Wilson Foster; The Political Unconscious in the Autobiographical Writings of Patrick Kavanagh, Eamonn Hughes; English Political Writers on Ireland: Robert Southey to Douglas Hurd, Tom Paulin; The Autobiographical Imagination and Irish Literary Autobiographies, Michael Kenneally; James Joyce's "The Dead" The Symbolist Inspiration and Its Narrative Reflection, Walter T. Rix; Wordsworth at the Flax-Dam: An Early Poem by Seamus Heaney, Nicholas Roe. Price:
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